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A foreigner in your own land II

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Maxime plays with the breadth of perception in her work. With heightened sensitivity to colour, she produces spontaneous and carefree abstractions of her surroundings. Compositions are painted either from life or from memory, in which gestural strokes evoke atmosphere. Inspired by Gaugin, Peter Doig and the Bloomsbury Group, her pervading interests in pattern and how we see the world informs her practice.

Maxime Londgen: "This a a series of landscapes, painted from life and memory. They swirl around ideas of reality and illusion, vision and memory. I paint a scene over and over again; from life, in the moment, and then from memory. Each time I notice different things, the light changes, my focus changes. Nothing is ever exactly the same, it is up to the subject to decide what is worth recording, remembering, and even then objects continue to be in flux, distorted by memory and part of something else, in a new time and place."

This illustration is part of the Repeats / Echoes of a Time and a Place Series made with gouache on recycled 320gsm archival paper. Each illustration is signed by the artist and includes certificate of authenticity. All artworks are shipped directly from the artist.